- Pea plants can grow inside a human lung.
- In Switzerland you can be fined $1m for speeding.
- Seaside towns and the Isle of Man used to have postcard censorship committees.
- The penguin on Penguin books was named Frostie after one of the editors at the publishing house.
- Nationwide supermarket bans exist.
- Naturalist Charles Darwin left the Victorian equivalent of about £13m today, and Charles Dickens £7m when they died.
- Fishermen in Britain have a one in 20 chance of being killed on the job during the course of their working lives.
- The Qwerty keyboard layout isn't random - it's to keep commonly used letters apart.
- Some hardened sauna users can stand temperatures of up to 160C.
- Honeybees are cleverer at certain times of the day.
(Borrowed from the BBC)